Ryzom

josephm wrote:If graphics make the game why are you not playing EQII? ahh...because they...don't? So don't use that as Ryzom's excuse. I'd have played it without the great graphics just because of the open ended system and the competitive player setup. Before Ryzom I played a MUD. I played it since uhh ~'95. I passed UO/EQ etc. All that crap because the MUD I played was better. I dare say it is still the best game out there. No uber chars, pk with limited items, skills/knowledge required etc. After so many years I've played it to death. Though it evolves I don't feel a rush to get back to it.

More important than anything Nevrax has put out lately, I think that you'll find the community the greatest here. In game and out. have fun!

Not to derail the thread, but what MUD?

Arctic Diku
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marct wrote:In your one statement here you have made the profound statement that everyone needs to understand, players and devs alike.

Ryzom Provides MANY MANY choices, and a lot of freedom. Most times too much freedom is available so that you do not know what to do to help your cause. Tell me where to go in-game to figure out what I can do to help the Matis become almighty? Where do I go and what do I do to get the Karavan to love me and teach me their techno-bable?

I am not saying that my game-play should be directed or scripted, but when I want to help whatever cause I am in support of at the moment please provide me a way to find out how to help them. (in-game)

Freedom and our incredible looking game are incredible, and currently freedom and choice is our bane also. "I don't know how to help so I guess I will go dig." I love the game and want it to be better. This is the place to be, I wish they would deliver what the whole mmorpg community wants in a speedy manner. This game can corner the market and make gobs of money, and as a result, the NeL engine will do awesome too.

Exactly, Ryzom gives you plenty of opportunities and choices, but.... It's like standing in a corridor with doors on either side as far as you can see. Yet every door you open presents you with same room.

The room isn't Mauve is it? I hate Mauve

sankari wrote:Exactly, Ryzom gives you plenty of opportunities and choices, but.... It's like standing in a corridor with doors on either side as far as you can see. Yet every door you open presents you with same room.

and dont forget these are not normal doors in the hall. each and everyone is a revoliving door as well so not only do you walk in and see the exact same thing, but you go back around again and come out looking at where you started which is actualy where you ended.....It hurts the head to ponder.

Wait let me see if I understand what is going on the first page here...

spatula is getting flamed for saying Ryzom is a great game. Or did I read wrong? The community is so negative...

I think the community is simply fed up with lack of design team responses. The volume of that is only shadowed by QA group.

deadly7 wrote:Wait let me see if I understand what is going on the first page here...

spatula is getting flamed for saying Ryzom is a great game. Or did I read wrong? The community is so negative...

Not only am I saying that.. but I am also saying the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side. WoW was down like alost all day today, so I didn't get to fire it up again until tonight. I circle strafed a level 8 guy, me being level 3, and whupped his butt. He was pretty pissed, but hey, HE picked the fight. I found out that I cannot use my Pick Pocket skill on anyone but peoples of OTHER races. Sheesh, I can't even be a thief in my own village. Also, wolves and other ANIMALS are dropping things like armor and copper copper/gold coins. They gonna start talking next? I played for about an hour, did a couple missions, got bored and shut it off. Back to Ryzom tomorrow night, thankfully.

WoW is slick, but inunspired.
UO is encompassing, but dated.
Ryzom is pretty, but needs work.

I am definitely here for the community, the interesting story and sci-fi slant on things. I enjoy my ability to explore and I feel that there is always a puzzle to unravel... even if it is sometimes just deciphering the /commands, discovering you need a higher level to forage in PR or figuring out why a vendor won't say crap to me. Some higher level players should be leading instead of excluding newbs because they aren't a "high enough level to team with" or because your armor and jewelry rots faster. I don't like that rot factor at all, but it makes some sense that a bit of woodrot could spread if it came into contact with unblemished wood. So get off your high horses high level chars, screw the race for XP and enjoy PLAYING with people.

If I had spent as much time as some of you have JUST levelling, I would not have explored as far, made as many friends, or enjoyed myself quite so much. I also know a thing or two about how to get around this crazy Atys. So what if I still can't solo a Frahar, but have been here since Beta. I can harvest rings around many folks, I'm no DT to be sure, but he's never had a problem helping people level their harvest and neither will I.

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lariva wrote:I think the community is simply fed up with lack of design team responses. The volume of that is only shadowed by QA group.

only thing I am fed up with is the lack of SOLO player content, even in large guilds, if you play at some odd times, you are bound to be alone, and that really blows when you are trying to level anything OTHER than forage and crafting... forage and crafting are the only skills that you can solo effectively.

and WoW was worse, by giving you EXTRA XP bonus for Grouping... I would think somone SOLOing would need the extra XP.... ah well.... maybe I am the only person who thinks like this.

Nerp, I agree Xcom... it takes a LOT of skill and patience to solo in this game, and at higher levels it is darn near impossible to melee without a healer and get some decent XP. Have you tried the golden Izam on? Izams are what I used to solo on early on in my career, being good XP compared to the amount of fighting you have to do to kill them. Even when I was getting only 900xp from them I would be able to kill enough of them to go up a few levels in a day. How's the weather in Japan?